Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum mentioned Wednesday that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man on the street close to Mexico’s seat of presidency was an assault on all ladies, and that is why she determined to press prices towards him.
Mexico Metropolis Mayor Clara Brugada had introduced in a single day that the person was arrested.
In a video circulating broadly on social platforms, the person appeared to lean in for a kiss and contact the president’s physique together with his palms on Tuesday. She gently pushed his palms away, sustaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She may very well be heard saying, partially, “Don’t be concerned.”
On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was agency in emphasizing that this was not the primary time she had suffered such harassment and that the issue went far past her.
“No man has the precise to violate that area,” she mentioned, in a video the Mexican authorities shared on social media when it introduced prices had been filed.
“I made a decision to press prices as a result of that is one thing that I skilled as a lady, however that we as ladies expertise in our nation,” Sheinbaum continued, including that she additionally skilled it earlier in her life, as a scholar.
“My reflection is that if I don’t report the crime, what situation does that depart Mexican ladies in?” she mentioned.
The incident additionally raised questions concerning the president’s safety. Sheinbaum defined that she and her workforce had determined to stroll from the Nationwide Palace to the Training Ministry to avoid wasting time. She mentioned they might stroll it in 5 minutes, quite than taking a 20-minute automobile journey. She mentioned she wouldn’t change how she acts.
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Talking out in solidarity with the president, Brugada used a few of Sheinbaum’s personal language about being elected Mexico’s first lady president to emphasise that harassment of any lady — on this case Mexico’s strongest — is an assault on all ladies. When Sheinbaum was elected, she mentioned that it wasn’t simply her coming to energy, it was all ladies.
“In the event that they contact the president, they contact all of us,” Brugada wrote in a press release launched Wednesday. Her assertion went on to notice that Sheinbaum’s references to the collective “arrival” of ladies to energy in Mexico is “not a slogan, it is a dedication to not look the opposite method, to not enable misogyny to proceed to be veiled in habits, to not settle for a single further humiliation, not one other abuse, not a single femicide extra.”
Mexico’s Nationwide Governors Convention additionally voiced their assist for the president as information broke that she would convey prices towards the person.
“From CONAGO we condemn any aggression towards ladies, on this case the aggression towards the president of Mexico,” the group mentioned in a press release shared on social media. “Each type of violence towards a lady is unacceptable and should not have any place in a society that aspires to dwell with respect and equality.”
